Do-nothing House Republicans

12:14 PM,
Feb. 27, 2013

Dana Milbank

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Dana Milbank

A meat cleaver hangs over the federal government, but the unflappable men and women of the House majority remain cool and poised.

With just a few days to stop automatic spending cuts from affecting everything from air travel to food inspections, House Republicans had but one item on their agenda Monday: renaming a NASA facility in California.

H.R. 667, as this urgently needed legislation is known, would "redesignate the Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center." ...